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ArticleJournal of Huntington's disease2013

The de-ubiquitinating enzyme ataxin-3 does not modulate disease progression in a knock-in mouse model of Huntington disease.

Li Zeng, Sara J Tallaksen-Greene, Bo Wang, Roger L Albin, Henry L Paulson

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Article in Journal of Huntington's disease, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Differential effects of delayed aging on phenotype and striatal pathology in a murine model of Huntington disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Li ZengDepartment of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Sara J Tallaksen-GreeneDepartment of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Bo WangDepartment of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Roger L AlbinDepartment of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA ; Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VAAAHS, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Henry L PaulsonDepartment of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USVA Ann Arbor Healthcare System · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Polyglutamine NeurodegenerationR01NS038712 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PAULSON, HENRY L · 2000 to 2019
$8.1M
NINDS NIH HHS NS038712NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038712
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ataxin-3 is a deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) that participates in ubiquitin-dependent protein quality control pathways and, based on studies in model systems, may be neuroprotective against toxic polyglutamine proteins such as the Huntington's disease (HD) protein, huntingtin (htt). HD is one of at least nine polyglutamine neurodegenerative diseases in which disease-causing proteins accumulate in ubiquitin-positive inclusions within neurons. In studies crossing mice null for ataxin-3 to an established HD knock-in mouse model (HdhQ200), we tested whether loss of ataxin-3 alters disease progression, perhaps by impairing the clearance of mutant htt or the ubiquitination of inclusions. While loss of ataxin-3 mildly exacerbated age-dependent motor deficits, it did not alter inclusion formation, ubiquitination of inclusions or levels of mutant or normal htt. Ataxin-3, itself a polyglutamine-containing protein with multiple ubiquitin binding domains, was not observed to localize to htt inclusions. Changes in neurotransmitter receptor binding known to occur in HD knock-in mice also were not altered by the loss of ataxin-3, although we unexpectedly observed increased GABAA receptor binding in the striatum of HdhQ200 mice, which has not previously been noted. Finally, we confirmed that CNS levels of hsp70 are decreased in HD mice as has been reported in other HD mouse models, regardless of the presence or absence of ataxin-3. We conclude that while ataxin-3 may participate in protein quality control pathways, it does not critically regulate the handling of mutant htt or contribute to major features of disease pathogenesis in HD.

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AnimalsAtaxin-3Cerebral CortexDisease Models, AnimalDisease ProgressionGene Knock-In TechniquesHuntingtin ProteinHuntington DiseaseMiceMice, TransgenicMotor SkillsNeostriatumNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsTranscription FactorsUbiquitin-Protein Ligase ComplexesAtaxin-3Atxn3 protein, mouseHtt protein, mouseHuntingtin ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsTranscription FactorsUbiquitin-Protein Ligase ComplexesAtaxin-3Huntington diseaseNeurodegenerative diseasepolyglutamineubiquitin-proteasome pathway

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